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“I thoroughly enjoyed every moment with WindAid Institute. The team were so welcoming and I have never laughed so much in a month! The workshop was fun, interesting and easy to understand, even with no engineering background. The installation was heartwarming, it’s amazing to know you physically made electricity for a house or community when they had nothing!

I learned about renewable energy, engineering, climate change and different cultures. I would recommend it to anyone- from any background. I loved it and I would do it all over again in an instant!

“… After graduating I wanted to travel, but I needed work experience. I decided to visit Peru, see Machu Picchu, ‘find myself’ and on the way I’d drop by and do some volunteering. But WindAid turned out to be so much more than that!

The highlight of Peru was not trekking the Andes, nor surfing, nor visiting Inca ruins. It was finding myself a family- a group of people to laugh with and cherish every moment. It was stammering some newly learned Spanglish to attentive Peruvian children. It was witnessing first-hand the effects of climate change and coastal erosion. It was my first time engineering hands-on with a real, physical product.

Most of all, it was seeing the community of Playa Blanca being able to eat dinner, not in the dark or by candle light, but with lights powered and installed by WindAid. It was seeing that even me – a lucky graduate with no experience – can have a role in ‘lighting up’ these families’ lives.

I can’t thank WindAid enough for how it has changed me: my priorities, my confidence and my future. I absolutely recommend it to anyone and I absolutely will be returning… if they let me!…”